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Pork Store Cafe Valencia
Categories: Restaurants American (Traditional) Restaurants Breakfast & Brunch American (Traditional), Breakfast & Brunch [Edit]
3122 16th St(at Valencia St)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Neighborhood: Mission
(415) 626-5523
- Hours:
Mon-Thu, Sun 8 am - 4 pm
Thu 7 pm - 12 am
Fri-Sat 8 am - 2 am
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good For:
- Breakfast
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Caters:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
603 reviews for Pork Store Cafe Valencia
Review Highlights
"the tasty nest IS the best hangover cure in the city."
(in 59 reviews)
"I have never had such crispy, golden hash browns."
(in 87 reviews)
"Bloody Mary and a great breakfast menu."
(in 28 reviews)
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603 reviews in English
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Review from Jeanne L.
9/21/2011 1 Check-in Here
The restaurant was practically empty on a Thursday for lunch/brunch. I ordered:
[[ Chorizo Special ]] - chorizo sausage, mushrooms, onions, fresh salsa, basil & spices with eggs over on top. Comes with your choice of biscuit or toast. Definitely get the toast. So delicious. Before I knew it, most of my plate was cleared off.
[[ Bloody Mary drink ]] - a lot of vodka went in it. Could have used more spice though.
Special perk for getting 50% off via ScoutMob. -
Review from Jess R.
Inner Sunset, San Francisco, CA
1/24/2012
Not usually a meat eater, but the pork chops in the Pork Store Special ($9) are scrumptiously delicious; cooked to perfection. The fruit (sub $1) is what every fruit plate should be - a variety of the good stuff: mango, tangerines and watermelon included.
Went for a late Saturday brunch and it was continuously busy throughout. It took a half hour wait time for 2.
However for being so busy (granted this was the first weekend after the Scoutmob discount) you would think they could afford to spruce up the place or at least find an alternative to the bucket on the table right next to us catching the drops from a leaky roof. I think it wouldn't be a good thing to have that splash into someone's food.
The food deserves 4 stars...
BUT the place needs to catch up and therefore the reason why I give it 3 stars.
By the way, I saw on their door that they deliver! -
Review from Heidi M.
San Francisco, CA
1/24/2012
I'm not really a fan... it's quite overhyped for what it actually offers. Service is poor (inattentive, as well as not getting my party's orders right... any of the times I've eaten here); the restaurant never seems very clean to me (filthy restroom, grimy tables, floors do not look like they are cleaned every day).
The food is very blah, and I mean... it's pretty hard to screw up breakfast foods, right??? Overcooked eggs, undercooked potatoes, spongy pancakes, bland sausage gravy. There was also a surprisingly limited amount of pork in the Pork Store Cafe... and what we ordered was not impressive at all (bland sausage, limp bacon).
I really don't like going back, but inexplicably my friends always want to go here... yea, maybe I need new friends. -
Review from Carol L.
12/30/2011 1 Check-in Here
The breakfast here was yummy! Portion size was big - I got the nest thing, and it was sure tasty, with tons of melted cheese hidden in it. I think it tasted even better at home, when I ate half my leftovers.
Oh, I did notice a funky smell while inside the restaurant...like someone relieved themselves or as if a homeless man sat next to me. sorry if that's rude...but I was surprised by it. Looking around, so no reason why it would smell like that at the booth. -
Review from Amerykah M.
Austin, TX
2/4/2012
Visiting from Austin was sent here by a co-woker who is a recent transplant to austin via frisco. Great place, a total dive with delishus divey food. I had the Rueben. Yum. Coffee was good too. I like it.
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Review from Eric A.
12/27/2011 1 Check-in Here
This place was decent! I think I overhyped it though. The portion size is enjoyable. There were 4 of us and we didn't have to wait at all which was nice (came here around 10:30am)
comfort food is great! would definitely come here again. -
Review from Valerie C.
San Francisco, CA
11/20/2011
The only thing worse than this place is the Pork Store Cafe on Haight. Because you can have the best food (and they're biscuits are TO-DIE-FOR) but if your service sucks--guess what?!--you're going to lose a patron or two.
I really did try to give this place another shot. But when you have to ask your server for ketchup for your hash browns, sugar for coffee, drinks that should have been included with your meal (my friend ordered one of those breakfast specials), and refills, all because your server was MIA for a good 10 minutes (this was post-brunch rush) and she replies with a sigh and a curt "IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE???" then guess what Pork Store Cafe: You may be doing food right but you've got every else wrong. -
Review from Audrey B.
12/26/2011 1 Check-in Here
I waited an hour for brunch on a Sunday and was pretty disappointed with the food. There were four in my party and they brought the food out at the same time, but my eggs benedict was cold, which is gross. The service was pretty good, so I don't know if they just cooked some of the dishes before the others were done and had to wait, but cold food is a deal breaker for me. Definitely not worth the wait on a weekend.
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Review from Irene C.
12/29/2011 1 Check-in Here
Was trying to be all green by walking to breakfast from my hotel in downtown, but Dottie's was moving locations and Brenda's had a ridiculous wait (you SF people really like to wait in lines, don't you). Hightailed it in the car to the Mission, found parking within 5 minutes, seated immediately on a Wednesday afternoon. Boyfriend got Eggs in a Tasty Nest was obvs very good! I got Mike's Low Carb (scrambled eggs, chicken apple sausage, steamed spinach, and a sliced tomato seasoned with garlic salt!), not to be healthy, but because I usually don't like hash browns and I love tomato with breakfast. I can see this place getting too busy for its britches.
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Review from Samantha M.
San Francisco, CA
12/20/2011
Fantastic place for brunch, amazing comfort food. Great pancakes and mimosas, spacious place, attentive servers. Usually a line to get in but well worth it. Can't wait to go back again!
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Review from Josh J.
San Francisco, CA
9/12/2011
There's nothing like a good, down-home Southern breakfast, and the star of the show is usually biscuits and gravy, a dish so delicious in its simplicity that it can render my typically garrulous family speechless. It's also an incredibly easy dish to screw up too; if your biscuits aren't good, it doesn't matter how awesome your gravy is. Likewise, if your gravy is no good and the biscuits are amazing, it's not going to work. Good biscuits and gravy comes from a marriage of the two, and the sum of their parts are much more amazing in concert than they ever are separate. Of course, I am the one person in my family who was not born with the Southern Cooking Gene, so I can't make it myself, and any attempts would likely traumatize me and the unfortunate souls I served it to.
As much of a foodie city as San Francisco claims to be, there is a huge dearth of good Southern cuisine here. It's one of the few things I've become homesick for (besides friends and family, and the weather of course!) since moving here from Florida in February.
Taking advantage of the rare weather this weekend, my friend and I took a walk from Upper Market down to Valencia on Sunday for lunch before heading to Badlands later. He is a completely assimilated Alabaman transplant who has been here since high school, so I trust his suggestions. Having ran into a gaggle of guys he knows on the way to Valencia (both in the biblical sense and otherwise), it came as no surprise to me that he would suggest a place called the "Pork Sword Cafe" for lunch. I had no idea what I was in for. Of course he'd know where a place called the "Pork Sword Cafe" was. I totally thought we were going to end up in some fringe gay dive bar that happened to have a lunch special.
Imagine my surprise (and relief) to end up in an actual restaurant called The PORK STORE Cafe. Any fears I had about this place were alleviated when I saw tables! and chairs! and the one item I've been waiting to eat for the past eight months staring me down on the menu: BISCUITS AND SAUSAGE GRAVY. The price? $3.75. It has to be the best deal in town. For $3.75, you get a large, flaky, crumbly buttermilk biscuit split in half and topped with thick sausage gravy. For that moment, I was in my own personal version of heaven.
If there's one thing I could complain about, the sausage gravy didn't have enough sausage flavor (traditionally, you use the pan drippings from cooking the sausage to help start your roux for gravy, then add the sausage); this tasted more like bits of cooked sausage was added to gravy that was made without the drippings in a separate pan. The biscuits were everything you'd expect them to be though, and the gravy itself was good, and would have held up on its own completely divorced of sausage.
The star missing is because it was ungodly hot in the restaurant, and the large fans overhead were not turned on, even though it felt like a sauna in there. Reviews on yelp seem to point out there are other problems with other dishes, and my friend had to wait until AFTER his entree was brought out to get toast (the simplest part of the whole entree, I would think), but when I saw B&G on that menu, I lost interest in anything else.
I'm still not sure whether my friend actually said "Pork Sword", or if I heard him say it because that's what I would have expected him to say, or perhaps I may have had "Pork Sword" on the brain, but at least I'll never forget the name, or the fact that in the span of an afternoon, San Francisco became a far more bearable place to live for this Southern boy. -
Review from rachel b.
San Francisco, CA
1/21/2012
The pork store cafe steals money out of their clients.
It was friday, the 20th of march. My girlfriend and i happened to be in the mission and my friend had recommended the pork store cafe as a delish brunch place. We got there at 2:55pm as the place was practically empty, the girl shouted from the back to sit anywhere we wanted. We looked around and thought the place was pretty cool and unique, the girl brought us the menus and gave us some time to go over it. I went for the eggs over tasty nest and my girlfriend got the chicken fried steak, both came out of the kitchen real fast, literally, 5 mins after we had ordered... Which seemed a bit weird but the food ended up pretty tasty. The girl didnt waste anytime and came to pick up our empty plates and left the check on the table, the total came to about $22 which really wasn't all that bad. As i know most people like to be tipped in cash, i went ahead and did that. We thanked the girl as we walked out pretty content and certain we would return.
Later that evening after checking my bank account and realizing they had charged me about $27 instead of the $22, i picked up the phone and gave them a call to get that $5 reimbursed to my account... We live in a tough world and as everyone knows, as students, life ain't easy and money doesn't grow on trees!!! Anyhow, pork store cafe never answered which had me leave a message on the answering machine simply asking for them to reimburse the $5 back to my account. I never heard back from them and ended up calling the next day in the middle of the afternoon... Without success i ended up leaving another message, a bit more aggressive this time. They NEVER called me back!!!! My gf then tried calling them again later that night. When they finally answered the phone, she began to explain the situation and the person on the phone hung up on her!!! She then tried calling again and tried to explain herself AGAIN!!! And guess what??? That person hung up agaiiiiin after my gf tried asking to talk to a manager. We couldnt believe it, so we tried calling over and over again and they wouldnt answer the phone. Well let me tell you, ive been working in the costumer industry for a very long time, and never i have been taught to treat people that way!!!!
We are so appalled by the situation!!!
All i know is that tmrw, im going up there and demanding a full refund of the money i spent there, because this, this is not right!!!!
So now, keep that in mind, especially if you are drinking, just seems like its something they are used to do!!! -
Review from Earl G.
8/12/2011 3 photos
I heard this cafe was popular for late night eats and brunch. So stopped in for a weekday lunch. Not crowded, a couple people dining al fresco. I heard you can also hookah al fresco.
Ordered the country fried steak with grits and biscuits ($10) which was soul food without any soul. Bland, dry, and overcooked you might want to order your cfs medium rare. The pork chop plate ($10) with hash browns was slightly better with at least some grilled flavor on the chops. I will say that their biscuits were fluffy like cotton balls and pretty legit. (http://www.yelp.com/bi...)
Even though our fully tatted waitress kept our drinks flowing, and I was feelin the gang of lampshades with full bar; when your named Pork Store, you gotta be on point with your pork products. (http://www.yelp.com/bi...)Listed in: PORK! My top 10 things pig.
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Review from Desiree C.
San Francisco, CA
12/15/2011
The restaurant has a great atmosphere (love the hanging lamps), but for a place that calls itself Pork Store Cafe, my order of pork chops was only so-so.
I really wanted to like the place, and it definitely gets points for ambience and biscuits, but the pork was tough, dry, and throughout my meal, I actually struggled to cut my meat. I'm no pipsqueak, but I finally gave up one third through my second pork chop and didn't even get it to-go.
The five dollar mimosa + coffee deal was awesome... but since this is a cafe with a 30 minute wait for an "eh" brunch, I have to minus a star. -
Review from Brian G.
Walnut Creek, CA
12/12/2011
Had brunch here yesterday with a group of 5. The mission is always a fun place to be on Sunday mornings especially overlooking 16th Street from a café. They have a giant brunch menu here and after much consideration I selected the Eggs In A Tasty Nest. It's 2 eggs on top of hashed browns, bacon, grilled green peppers, tomatoes, onions & garlic...emphasis on the garlic! I was expecting the eggs to actually be "nested" in the rest of the dish but they were really just on top. I thought overall there was too much garlic for a breakfast dish. The service was ok and the décor nice. Prices were reasonable too. In general I think I just wasn't overly impressed with the quality of my brunch. I will go back and give it another shot, just not in a rush.
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Review from Jason B.
Updated - 9/10/2011
Late afternoon waffles.
A sign you had a late great night or that you really love waffles. Or both.
Today I was both. Pork Store's Belgium waffle topped is served large and topped with a ton of fruit. Tasted fine, perhaps priced a little high at $9.
Dining companion made a bowl of poached eggs the perfect dipping venue for wheat toast. Clever move.
Being able to sit outside on a pleasant September Saturday afternoon sealed the third star. Good thing there is never a bad time for brunch.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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11/16/2010
A-OK turkey burger with a bit of spice sprinkled on top and salad on the side. Though you know, just… Read more »
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Review from James V.
San Jose, CA
9/16/2011 1 Check-in Here
Outstanding service by our waitress this morning. Great hangover remedy!
I enjoy the pork store even though I am a vegetarian. They have all sorts of good stuff! -
Review from Pam S.
7/31/2011
Brunch time!
Any brunch place anywhere has a wait gggrrrrr. Good thing when we came here it was only 15 minutes.
I got the eggs in a tasty nest and it was just that. I initially thought they'd do an ommelette but it was actually your eggs over a bed of hash brown, bacon, peppers, tomatoes and onions. Wow! What a treat. Sides of rye toasts smothered with butter and jelly, aaahhhh for this dish. Our table got mimosas too.
Nice place, clean bathroom and people here are friendly.
I was asking my friends why it's called the Pork Store...the answer? "because you pig out" LOL! -
Review from David P.
8/22/2011 1 Check-in Here
Pork Store has a menu that knocks the teeth out of most breakfast establishments! Every omelette, sandwich, scramble or breakfast special you can imagine they have in abundance. If you're in need of a hangover cure in the Mission, this should be destination #1!
Their Crab Scramble was delicious and full of flavor, if a bit heavy on the cheese. You could tell the crab meat was real and not the "Krab with a K" kind. Their Breakfast Tortilla is also worth trying. Definitely order yourself a glass of their fresh squeezed orange juice to get the meal off to the right start.
Service here is impeccable. Our wait was less than 20 minutes on a Sunday morning, which is very hard to beat. The food appeared just as quickly, and coffee service was generous throughout. Their servers and hostess are very pretty and have South American (?) accents. I'll have to investigate further on that one :) -
Review from Diana W.
6/19/2011 1 Check-in Here
-----BRUNCH ONLY---
Surprisingly, not a lot of pork on the menu. Har har.
Here's why this place gets 4 stars:
1) NO wait at 11AM on a Sunday. HUGE win, especially since other brunch places have a wait of over 1 hour
2) Prices match to the size of the portion you get
3) The ambiance has this really laidback feel to it and the crowd is a nice variety
4) You can get 50% off with ScoutMob (up to $10 off max)
5) The food is pretty delicious too
Ordered:
-Chicken apple sausage scramble which comes with broccoli, spinach and cheese. DELICIOUS and pretty heavy (I felt so full before I could finish everything). The chicken apple sausage was definitely a big highlight for me and I'd come back to order this again
-Scrambled eggs with hot link was good too. Comes with chedder cheese and also very hearty.
For two entrees and two coffees, the total came out to $24 and with the ScoutMob deal, only $14. Cheap brunch, no wait, good food = win -
Review from Arnold N.
South San Francisco, CA
8/17/2011 1 photo
Always stumble past this place on drunk Saturday nights on 16th street so wanted to try it for breakfast.
Came here for breakfast on a Tuesday morning and sat outside on the sidewalk tables. A lot of parking in the morning, wasn't busy at all, food came out pretty quick, servers checked up on us often and overall cool place to eat breakfast in the mission.
Ordered the 49er which consists of eggs however you want them, hash browns and a biscuit covered in sausage gravy for about $8. Big portions and it filled me up, tasted good, but can't say it was anything more than A-OK.
I'll have to come back again to try the eggs in a tasty nest which is what I keep reading about. -
Review from E-dough R.
San Francisco, CA
9/11/2011 1 Check-in Here
This is the worst brunch I've had in SF. My toast was basically microwaved bread and both the hash browns and french fries were undercooked. I had the crab meat scramble and my girlfriend had a turkey sandwich - neither of us finished either of our items (we came in hungry too). I was still hungry after not enjoying my scramble so i had a bite of her turkey sandwich, it was really gross and I can't believe they aren't embarrassed serving such a sorry excuse of a turkey sandwich. Only plus side of that sando was that it ACTUALLY came toasted, opposed to my microwaved bread.
Oh, i almost forgot to mention, the wait stuff was absolute garbage. I know that some classic diners tend to have rude wait staff, but with such bad food quality, I just don't understand how they have the nerve...the hostess never greeted us at the door and when i asked if they were still open for lunch she didn't even make eye contact and just told us to sit at whatever table wasn't dirty. during lunch, the waitress never once asked me if i wanted a refill on my fountain drink and i seriously had to flag her down to get one lousy refill.
so, if you want brunch here is a list of better places to go to: Brendas, Dotties, Mamas, Mission Beach Cafe, Boogaloos, Zazie's, and Liberties (yes, even this bar food brunch is substantially better). I think the only place with a worst brunch is Lime in the Castro, but at least they have bottomless mimosas and some serious pizazz.
Seriously, i'm never going to Pork Store in the Mission again in my life. -
Review from Jason H.
San Francisco, CA
1/9/2012
So so brunch spot. Good news is they have a huge menu and decent mimosas, and great location for a day in the mission.
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Review from Jowin C.
8/15/2011
Don't stand outside to wait for your table because your hostess may have a little voice and tell you they've called your name many times. As a result, three parties after you may get seated.
I realized their Boca Burger and Turkey Burger taste very similar. And when you get the burger, it's not hot. Calling the burger how would be an overstatement. I'm a little sad there's no mustard or some homemade aeoli inside the burger--ketchup saves the day! The fries are good for folks who like soggy fries.
The servers take awhile to come to your table before they take your order. I must e ordering the wrong items off the menu because I'm not satisfied with my meals. -
Review from Alexa B.
San Francisco, CA
9/18/2011
This place always brings it. There have about 5 different kinds of Eggs Benedict including Grav Lox Benedict and Crab Benedict. They also have brunch deals where coffee, OJ and a mimosa/make-your-own bloody mary are included at a very reasonable price. How can you not like that?
Only minus one star because the service is often very slow. -
Review from Vicki M.
Claremont, CA
6/20/2011
Pros:
Good place to observe hipster babies in their natural habitat.
Cons:
Weak coffee, unimpressive scrambles, average service.
Very casual brunch atmosphere with pretty lamps on the ceiling. I had the chicken apple sausage scramble, which was bland. The wheat toast was cold and soaked in butter, but the hash browns were very crispy. The waitress was pretty busy so service could be improved with a larger wait staff. This place was very very average. I expected a lot more of a place with such a big crowd. -
Review from Sofia R.
7/22/2011 2 photos
I've been to this Pork Store Cafe and the one in Haight&Ashbury.
The first time I came here, I was with a friend and we were debating on what to eat. We stumbled upon this place but I was very iffy at first. It didn't look impressive to me at all ("Pork Store? What kind of name is that?").
We went in regardless because we wanted to check it out and because we were massively hungry and on a time limit. The service wasn't super friendly but the woman who helped us was attentive to a degree. We ordered the California burger and Porky's burger with a side of onion rings and split it.
Oh gosh, was I ever wrong about this place. Maybe I'm biased because I was so hungry but those were the best burgers I've had in a long time and my friend agreed with me. Everything was delicious but our favorite was the California burger. We loved that there were bean sprouts inside! It was a nice touch.
The prices aren't too bad. We didn't care because we were hungry.
I went to the Haight&Ashbury branch (original place) with a friend insisting we get the breakfast. We woke up late and ended up getting burgers but we were still happy. Sodas are expensive. $2 for a can? And the place there gets packed really easily because it's such a small place. The staff was friendly but also kind of pushy. Oh and that place closes really early (3pm).
I really want to go back though just to try their breakfast. I've heard wonderful things. -
Review from Carmel N.
San Francisco, CA
8/17/2011
Ordered lunch for pickup from here the other day and was not disappointed. The chicken fried steak was flavorful and still crunchy and I really liked that the gravy wasn't too salty. The scrambled eggs were a little bland, but there was so much other good food that I didn't really care.
My officemates ordered other breakfast items and some ordered sandwiches. Not one person complained about their food, which was nice! The food is reasonably priced and was ready fairly quickly.
Obviously, it isn't the best chicken fried steak I've ever had - but for quick, inexpensive food during the lunch rush in the mission, it's pretty darn good. -
Review from Rachid G.
Seattle, WA
6/22/2011 1 Check-in Here
"Meh. I've experienced better" couldn't describe this place better. Got an eggs in a tasty nest, which sounds delicious. Came here on a nice hangover looking forward to some classic breakfast food. Ordered my eggs over easy, in case you were wondering.
Man, was I disappointed. First thing I noticed was that my food was TOO SALTY. Way too salty. And then, well, that's all I noticed. It was too salty. One thing I've noticed about bacon: it's really salty, and you usually don't need to use much salt with it. This thing had a ton of bacon and it was obvious that they salted it too. It seemed like it had a lot of potential to be good but was not. The biscuits however were really good. Not the best biscuits I've ever had but they saved me from regretting coming here.
Ton of hipsters, the general atmosphere was good, the restaraunt itself was pretty nice, had a nice patio.
Service was eh. Waitress seemed to not really give much of a s*** but wasn't rude or anything. Did find myself with an empty glass of water a few times which always annoys me. -
Review from Thomas L.
San Francisco, CA
7/26/2011
Checked out this spot on a beautiful, sunny Saturday afternoon with my best friend. She brought her mutt along and we sat outside.
Everything went like a well-oiled machine. The server greeted us and brought menus, we selected the huevo ranchero and 2 pancakes and added bacon. For drinks we ordered the bloody mary, which was perfectly blended. It was a creeper because the vodka didn't kick in until after we finished eating so it made for a fun walk home. The pancakes were nice and fluffy, the bacon nicely fried, not oily. My friend's huevos ranchero was ok, so we added tabasco sauce for a kick. Service was friendly and attentive; she noticed a leaf fell into my water and she brought over another glass. Overall, great experience. -
Review from Lame lake meese A.
Bay Area
5/23/2011
I finally found parking in the Castro after driving in desperate circles for one and a half hours. I turned off the car, cracked the door and crumpled; sobbing, to the ground. I was instantly surrounded by a superpod of gay men, who soothed me and protectively nudged me to 16th and Valencia, because I didn't know where I was anymore. All they wanted was my happiness in return. The Pork Store can't take credit for that.
The Pork Store is extremely casual, blood red, dark, boothy, busy, a little sticky and good for groups.
I had Eggs Benedict. They were very good. I'd like some now.
Here's where Eggs Benedict can go wrong:
1. Uncooked egg white. When it happens, it's a degrossifying discovery...like mucus. Even James Beard didn't eat mucus.
The Pork Store did not fail me, amniotic fluid was thoroughly coagulated.
2. Untoasted, overly-thick English muffin, or some weird substitute for an English muffin.
The Pork Store uses a normal-thickness, actually toasted English Muffin.
3. Weird-tasting Hollandaise sauce.
The Hollandaise sauce tasted like the egg-yolky, lemony stuff it's supposed to be.
Waitress was friendly and efficient.
I like you, Porky.
They have beer. -
Review from Emily Y.
San Francisco, CA
10/27/2011
Neighborhood grease joint. The food is fantastic and wallet friendly. I recommend the Pork Store Special...
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Review from Joi L.
San Francisco, CA
11/8/2011 1 Check-in Here
OK breakfast, not as clean as I would like but, one thing I must mention is that I thought the waitress Gina over charged my credit card by adding on an extra tip. So I spoke with the manager the next day named Mike, and he explained it all to me, it sounded weird at first, but within a couple of days the pending transaction went away.
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Review from Mike C.
San Francisco, CA
I've been here a bunch throughout the years, but never really decided to give it a review, until my breakfast this past weekend. When going to a place like this, where breakfast is served all day, I tend to get my usual (two eggs scrambled, biscuits with gravy and hash browns). It's a solid meal at a place like this, but then again nothing can compete with my mom's biscuits and gravy, nothing.
I ran with scissors for my recent meal and got the "no substitutions, please" Eggs in a Tasty Nest. Ummm, how do I describe awesome? How does one taste heaven? Every bite just got better and better. Solid portion too, if not too much for the light eater. I highly recommend.
This place is in a busy area of the Mission. Parking can be a bite at peak times, and well, it is the Mission so watch for people not using crosswalks, cars on the wrong side of the street and people who could snap at any minute. Service is typical in a place like this. They want turnover, and they have the lines on the weekend to support it. I'm a big liquid drinker, and I've never had to ask for refill. They are on top of it. That scores big points for me.
So why the missing star. It's not due to the food, location, service or decor (love the lamp shades!), it's the patrons. Large amounts of hipsters from hell, loud and obnoxious. Ugh. What I put up with to get a good breakfast. -
Review from Tammy C.
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Well, I don't know about the other cafe but have heard good things about it. So when I came here and had hopes it would be good.
I had eaten here as well as did a takeout. Well, Yelpers are right, the eat-in service was better than the takeout. Not way better, but at least not worse.
I had the Pork Juicy's burger with fries. I had it well done because for ground meat where you don't know what else went into the meat you should always order it well done to be safe. And it can still be good taste. This was not and was fairly dry even with some redness in it.
The fries were also not totally cooked and was somewhat slightly raw.
Maybe because I ordered it as takeout it was not cooked as properly? Maybe that's why the service was not the most friendly (even I tipped on the takeout)?
Well, I did come back and had the Huevo Rancheros. It was tastier relatively to my prior experience.
I am not certain if I would come back and give it the third try. -
Review from Candice B.
San Francisco, CA
5/2/2011
I love the space, but not the food. On a Saturday mid-morning, it's virtually impossible to find a brunch place that doesn't require a long wait, so when we saw Pork Store Cafe with no one standing around the front door, we were pretty ecstatic to not have to wait. In my opinion, waiting for brunch is just silly. If you want pancakes that bad, just make it at home. I am sure if you spend 45 minutes perfecting it, it'll taste just as good as the newest hottest brunch locale.
Anyway, the spacious inside was half filled, and they have booth seats which I irrationally love. The interior was dark and roomy and old-school. I got Belgian waffles with fruit and a latte. My husband a breakfast special thing with eggs, bacon and pancakes. Pretty standard breakfast choices.
My waffle was decent but I have been spoiled by the awesomeness of Blue Bottle or Dash Cafe caramelized waffles, so decent just wasn't good enough. And for $2.75 extra for fruit, I was hoping for fresh fruit. Instead, blueberries were definitely the frozen kind, which I hate, because frozen blueberries have no flavors at all. What is point, other than if you poke it with a fork, a blue-purple dye squirts out and stains your shirt?
My husband's breakfast was fine. Nothing special.
So, hmm, maybe next time we will just stick with our own neighborhood for brunch. Either that, or we need to figure out what everyone else has been ordering that makes them rave about this place. -
Review from Jessica R.
Pacifica, CA
7/10/2011
Never disappoints! My husband and I keep trying to find a different breakfast spot but none seem to ever to satisfy us as much!
We love the biscuits and gravy and love the fact they never bat an eye when I customize my food!
We'll keep going back as long as the food is good! -
Review from Galen W.
San Francisco, CA
Updated - 3/21/2011
This younger sibling of Haight Street's classic greasy spoon feels more like a restaurant than a hash house, but the timeless and omni-ethnic comfort food is equally satisfying.
This cafe feels more like a place you could come for breakfast and relax, without worrying about the starvling masses waiting to sit down.
Of course the service here is slower than on Haight. About 30 seconds slower. That's because the servers have to actually walk to your table instead of leaning over the counter, but you can still go from hungry to insanely full in 30 minutes.
The Tex Mex omelet and the vegetarian huevos are my favorite over indulgences. I'm not going to ask how the refried beans on the tortillas got so tasty while being vegetarian. Some mysteries are best not plumbed!
This pork store has a slightly upscale feel from the original. So, the hash browns are excellent, but not greasy, roll in them like a dog, bad for you, ketchup delivery devices as they are on Haight.
Still, if you're in the Mission, this Pork Store is a very fine alternative.
(Note, after my original one-star review I received a polite note from the cafe owner saying that they had looked into my poor service complaint and adjusted schedules. I have gone back two times in the past month, and the owner is right. The service has been quick, friendly, and spot on.)1 Previous Review: Show all »
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9/21/2010
I walked out this weekday morning at 9:30 after waiting 10 minutes for coffee, water, or even a nod… Read more »
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Review from Elaine T.
4/16/2011
My cousins and I went here for New Year's brunch. What's the quickest cure to a hangover? A mimosa of course! The bartender was nice enough to give me a mimosa anyway, even though she could probably tell I was underage at the time. But you know, us asians, we look so young! Haha.
I ordered the eggs benedict, which is surprisingly hard to make correctly for some establishments. Although this place made it just perfectly! I didn't feel bloated or anything afterwards, not like a breakfast at IHOP or something along those lines. Although I do recall coming out almost as drunk as the night before. Haha. The place is a bit dim inside, so nobody could really tell anyway.
Overall, I'd come back. It's a quaint little place in the Mission. It was a bit of a wait, but we walked over to Four Barrel for some coffee. So all in all, it wasn't too bad. -
Review from Dave H.
11/15/2010 12 photos
How do you like your eggs? Think for a moment. Now imagine those eggs atop a mess of hash browns with bacon, tomatoes, onions, and garlic, grilled bright green peppers, topped with cheddar cheese. Like that? Order the eggs in a tasty nest. While green peppers add flavor, I recommend adding liberal amounts of Tapatio for bite. It's not a life-changing dish, but it's a right value; it'll stick to you good. No complaints about the buttery toast.
As for the venue, if their army of lamp shades doesn't impress, their fully-stocked bar might. Stop in during a weekday to avoid having to fight for a seat.
